Comments on: SubEthaEdit now costs $$$, My Thoughts http://dbachrach.com/blog/2006/02/subethaedit-now-costs-my-thoughts/ a developer blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:23:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dustin Bachrach http://dbachrach.com/blog/2006/02/subethaedit-now-costs-my-thoughts/#comment-97 Dustin Bachrach Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:40:34 +0000 http://dbachrach.com/blg/?p=34#comment-97 Very true Benjamin. Companies like Redhat all show that it's possible to run a business around open source. Very true Benjamin. Companies like Redhat all show that it’s possible to run a business around open source.

]]> By: Benjamin Melançon http://dbachrach.com/blog/2006/02/subethaedit-now-costs-my-thoughts/#comment-96 Benjamin Melançon Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:43:43 +0000 http://dbachrach.com/blg/?p=34#comment-96 That's a great post on the competing motives of software developers and users (that can exist in the same person). Another open source free software business model (that doesn't require shareware) is value-added services, which makes a project like Drupal tick. However, that can't work for every desktop app. Open source is such a superior model of development, I think we we have to take a step back and look at what makes the closed source business model work. My thoughts here I think directly apply to that: http://agaricdesign.com/open-content-and-the-state That’s a great post on the competing motives of software developers and users (that can exist in the same person). Another open source free software business model (that doesn’t require shareware) is value-added services, which makes a project like Drupal tick. However, that can’t work for every desktop app.

Open source is such a superior model of development, I think we we have to take a step back and look at what makes the closed source business model work. My thoughts here I think directly apply to that:

http://agaricdesign.com/open-content-and-the-state

]]> By: Derek http://dbachrach.com/blog/2006/02/subethaedit-now-costs-my-thoughts/#comment-95 Derek Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:45:27 +0000 http://dbachrach.com/blg/?p=34#comment-95 Have a look at http://www.freesoftware4all.co.uk/ Have a look at http://www.freesoftware4all.co.uk/

]]> By: Dustin Bachrach’s Blog » Blog Archive » Who Loves Free Software? http://dbachrach.com/blog/2006/02/subethaedit-now-costs-my-thoughts/#comment-94 Dustin Bachrach’s Blog » Blog Archive » Who Loves Free Software? Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:15:15 +0000 http://dbachrach.com/blg/?p=34#comment-94 [...] Well I certainly do. And it’s kind of ironic. A few weeks back I wrote an article about SubEthaEdit being terminated as freeware. Well the guys at MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software for users to download SubEthaEdit free. Get SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. For more information about this promotion, check out BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com. This is one of my all time favorite pieces of software for mac. Get it free! [...] [...] Well I certainly do. And it’s kind of ironic. A few weeks back I wrote an article about SubEthaEdit being terminated as freeware. Well the guys at MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software for users to download SubEthaEdit free. Get SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. For more information about this promotion, check out BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com. This is one of my all time favorite pieces of software for mac. Get it free! [...]

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